The novel took favourites from my childhood (The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomroth) and looked at the aftermath of their stories with a complex adult eye. The work that was created was multi-layered and melded fantasy, with myth, story-telling, psychology and grounded geographical reality
The crowning achievement of an astonishing career, 'Boneland' concludes the story that began over fifty years ago in 'The Weirdstone of Brisingamen'.
If the sleeper wakes, the dream dies...
Professor Colin Whisterfield spends his days at Jodrell Bank, using the radio telescope to look for his lost sister in the Pleiades. At the same time, and in another time, the Watcher cuts the rock and dances, to keep the sky above the earth and the stars flying.
Colin can't remember; and he remembers too much. Before the age of twelve years and nine months is a blank.…
It was an intriguing and original story mixing fantasy and alternative history, or perhaps science fiction, while creating human and complex, as well as fantastical, characters. The world building was both imaginative and all too credible.
In this dystopian fairy tale from the New York Times bestselling author of Starling House, a small town’s storyteller struggles to protect a local demon from the knight hired to kill it.Hundreds of years after the end of the world, the Appalachian community of Iron Hollow finds itself beset by demons. Such horrors are common these days in the outlands, where most folks die young—if they don’t turn into monsters first.When a legendary knight is summoned to hunt down the latest unearthly beast to haunt their woods, the town’s new oral historian, Shrike, has more reason than most to be…
Combining political intrigue, time travel, family drama, and all the perils that come with being the first at anything, Hugo Award–winning author Philip K. Dick’s Martian Time-Slip follows a group of exiled colonists on Mars and the ten-year-old psychic among them—a boy whose altered perception of reality is so powerful he not only looks into the future, but can send people there."The writing is humorous, painful, awesome in its effect on both mind and heart . . . There are few modern novels to match it."—Rolling StoneOn a dystopian Mars, local bigwigs compete with Earth-bound interlopers to buy up land…
A sequence of poems narrating the life and times of a future-world everywoman, or, more accurately, every robot, the titular Steelyard Sue.
Songs of Steelyard Sue was nominated for the SFPA 2013 "Elgin Award" for best SF poetry chapbook and shortlisted for the Saboteur Awards 2013 for best poetry pamphlet.
"Steelyard Sue Builds a Baby" from Songs of Steelyard Sue was the WINNER of the 8th Annual Data Dump Awards for SF poems published in Britain in 2012
